Jessica Mitford

Journalist

1917-09-11

Books by Jessica Mitford

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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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If you're going to make such an unholy fuss about dogs you should have stayed in England, where they feed the dogs steak and let people in the slums die of starvation.
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Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There-a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator-so decrees.
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The great golden goal of every childhood-being a Grownup-seemed impossibly far away. There were for us no intermediate goals to fill the great, dull gap; no graduation from one stage of education to the next; no adolescent first parties to look forward to.
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He greeted us with that extra degree of kindness and hospitality which I had noticed in so many Americans; it always gave me the uncomfortable feeling that, no matter how long I lived among them, I should never quite be able to rise to their level of genuine cordiality with strangers.
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